Lanky Fellow - The Lone Avenger

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Movie
German title Lanky Fellow - The Lone Avenger
Original title Per il gusto di uccidere
Country of production Italy , Spain
original language Italian
Publishing year 1966
length 88 (German v. 87) minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Tonino Valerii
script Víctor Auz
Augisto Fonocchi
Remigio Del Grosso
Sandro Continenza
Massimo Capriccioli
Leonardo Martin
production Francesco Genesi
Vincenzo Genesi
Daniele Senator
José López Moreno
music Nico Fidenco
camera Stelvio Massi
cut Yosi Salgado
occupation
synchronization

Lanky Fellow - The lonely avenger (original title: Per il gusto di uccidere ) is a spaghetti western from an Italian-Spanish co-production in which Craig Hill , directed by Tonino Valerii, plays the title role. The film premiered on April 25, 1967 in German-speaking countries.

action

Lanky Fellows do not live as bounty hunters like other wanted bandits; he specializes in tracking money in transit through the desert in order to catch bandits interested in it red-handed. In the event of robberies, he clears up among them, secures the money and brings it to the destination in order to demand a share for his services there. After such an action, Lanky comes to Omaha and delivers the gold saved after an attack. In town, the wealthy mine owner Collins offers him a deal: he should deposit the $ 10,000 he just earned in the bank, which is expected to be robbed. If this succeeds, he has lost his money; if he can prevent it, his reward doubles. Lanky accepts. When the bandits actually attack the bank, there are numerous deaths and it comes as a surprise that the leader of the bank is an old friend of Lanky's, Gus Kennebeck. He kidnaps a city dweller - Lanky then takes Kennebeck's son prisoner. The bandits also find the bank empty. When the situation in Omaha has calmed down again, Lanky settles accounts with the leader and his deputy, gets his reward and rides away.

criticism

The work was sometimes perceived as "cynical and brutal" by the critics, the director and actor, especially the main role, were praised by Segnalazioni Cinematografiche , who saw the film fail because of its script, which "allowed too common elements to stand side by side." Christian Keßler remarks that director Valerii was already showing “a keen eye for attractive optical details” on his directorial debut; he too criticizes the script, which presents well-known clichés. The Evangelical Film-Observer praises the “perfection in the technical-formal area”, but accuses the work of not being able to compensate for “the elementary lack of human potency, which manifests itself primarily in the speculative representation of brutal and brutal actions” . Therefore, going to the cinema is not recommended.

Remarks

The title song is interpreted by composer Nico Fidenco, Lanky Fellow of The Wilder Brothers . The film grossed 165 million lire in Italy .

Outdoor shots found u. a. in the desert of Tabernas .

synchronization

The Berliner Union Film cast, directed by Karlheinz Brunnemann , who realized Ursula Buschow's dialogue book :

as well as Michael Chevalier , Helmuth Grube and Gerd Martienzen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Archivio del Cinema Italiano
  2. ↑ Lanky Fellow - The Lone Avenger. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Segnalazioni Cinematografiche. Vol. 60, 1966.
  4. ↑ Christian Keßler: Welcome to Hell. The Italo Western at a glance. Terrorverlag, Gütersloh 2001, ISBN 3-00-009290-0 , p. 182/183
  5. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 170/1967
  6. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del Cinema Italiano, I film vol. 3, dal 1960 al 1969. Gremese, Rom 1992, p. 393.
  7. ↑ according to synchronized files